Series of eight equestrian auction catalogues, properties of Leland and Charles Stanford

by Leland Stanford, Charles Stanford

$750 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

San Francisco & Schenectady: 1879-86. Leland Stanford 1824-93 was California Governor, U.S. Senator and with his wife founder of Stanford University. His brother Charles was a New York State Senator. Stanford was also interested in horses and owned the Gridley tract of 17,800 acres in Butte County, and in Santa Clara County, he founded his Palo Alto Stock Farm. He bred standard-bred horses to be raced as trotters, and thoroughbreds for flat racing. 1882. Trotting stock at Palo Alto,

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